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The second Mighty Oaks Solar Strength Band release (titled simply ‘MOSSB’) continues where 2012’s ‘Validus Balanus’ left off. It features the same lineup – Bret Judges, Owen Keenan and Ron Duffy (it even features Gary Edmonds on one track) but whereas ‘Validus’ was more of a songwriter’s showcase with the music playing a supporting role, ‘MOSSB’ puts the music to the forefront. There is a more Progressive feel to the tracks (‘Fortune Suite’ clocking in at just over 11 minutes in length) and overall the band hits a groove together, the track list feeling rather like a set list for a concise Live appearance. Enhancing this lived-in quality is the mastering of the record which was all done to analog tape. Interestingly, it was during sessions for this recording that the Mighty Oaks Solar Strength Band also provided instrumental backing for one of their own influences’ upcoming solo recordings – ‘My Loving’ by ex-Steppes frontman John Fallon – which might explain the inspired feel throughout.

Linea di Confine is the first studio album of Idee Confuse, released on CD in October 2013, completely self-produced.The genesis of the album was not completed in block but it collects songs born in different contexts and moments. This should have excluded conceptual unity, while deviating from the idea of concept album, which is instead found in the theme of “border line”, which is identified in the confused area where the disappearance of certainty and past references begins to give place to new sensations and reality, which are not yet known but perceptible. It is close to the boundary line that the conflict between reality and illusion, the relationship between appearance and essence, the difference between individuality and collectivity, between hope and denial are mixed up and confused.